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Media Series: Post 2–Societal Direction, How medias’ focus determines what WE see.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

What is important today? Is it Brittany Spears’ pregnancy? Is it the war in Iraq? Is it another political scandal? Who determines what is important? We know simply from observation that it is “the media” that determines what is foremost in the national consciousness. Who determines what SHOULD be important?
Fine, but who determines what SHOULD […]

When the average person is exposed to liberalism for too long

Monday, April 7th, 2008

This transcript from Rush Limbaugh’s show today is a great example of what happens to average people when they are exposed to liberalism for too long. I encourage you all to read the transcript if you have the time because it just shows the absolutely massive amount of disinformation that left has managed to disseminate […]

Media Series: Post 1–Media in Macro, How Information Flows

Friday, March 28th, 2008

How does the media work on a large scale? Why do national events grab the spotlight? If you pay any attention, you see the “it bleeds, it leads” mentality at work in the media. Fewer people bother to go deeper than a cynical comment or two in asking how news is made. That question is […]

Going deeper and asking why.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It’s fairly easy to just rave on about this or that being wrong with society. It’s even easier to go picking through news stories and columns like a sniper, then tearing them apart and putting them back together again. (It’s also rather fun, and, yes, it can be more than a little instructive.)
Frankly, that’s exactly […]

Why Global Warming?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

“Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming….Originating in Sydney in 2007, the Earth Hour campaign has now gained global attention. As […]

Hillary–groundhog, cockroach, attack dog

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Hillary just stuck her head out of her political bunker and declared we’re in for six more months of war. She still doesn’t seem to understand, though, that she’s in a catch 22. She can’t win with attack-dog politics, and the way she’s tearing Obama up, she might as well volunteer in the John McCain […]

Social Networking Sites

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

According to an Associated Press article posted at Newsmax.com, Facebook has hired Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations to be their Chief Operating Officer. The article mentioned that Facebook, with 66 million users, has become the internet’s most populous social network.
As always, when Facebook is mentioned the whole specter of social networking […]

Feminism: Society’s Great Faux Pas

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

When I saw the “Outlook” headline today on The Washington Post’s website, I could hardly believe my eyes. The words “Why Do Women Act So Dumb?” headed a column by Charlotte Allen that touched on everything from politics to driving to home economics. I couldn’t help being interested, and once I got into the column, […]

Watching the liberals duke it out

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

They say that you can tell the character of a man by his enemies as much as by his friends. Such a one is Rush Limbaugh, who has made headlines again by telling voters in Ohio and Texas to vote for Hillary Clinton.
There are few names as reviled by the left as Limbaugh. For nearly […]

The liberal worldview comes home to roost

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The Associated Press reported Monday that Hillary Clinton is trying to smear Barack Obama.
Yup, you heard it right, now let’s try it again. This time, put it in quote marks. “Top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism Monday, the latest effort by her campaign to undermine the Illinois senator’s […]